Spreetail

Ecommerce accelerator managing marketplaces and fulfillment

Senior Staff Engineer

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Six to eight or more years of experience building and shipping production backend systems.
Experience informally or formally leading the technical direction of a team or workstream through design reviews, mentorship, and setting standards.
Strong fundamentals in backend engineering, including application programming interfaces, data modeling, databases, and distributed systems.
Experience with cloud platforms; Amazon Web Services is preferred, as well as cloud-native service design.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures, including queues, streams, and asynchronous processing.
Strong testing, debugging, and production-support practices.
Ability to set technical direction and make sound judgment calls without direct authority.
Ability to represent a workstream in broader architecture discussions.
Ability to influence and align engineers without formal authority.
Clear written and verbal communication, especially in asynchronous, distributed team settings.
Ability to balance hands-on technical work with guiding others.
Candidates must provide their own work-from-home setup and meet the stated computer, dual-monitor, internet, headset, and webcam requirements.

Responsibilities

Own the technical foundation of the 3PL product, including multi-tenant systems for client onboarding, inventory, warehouse operations, order fulfillment, and billing for external customers.
Build a scalable multi-tenant platform that can onboard external clients with distinct catalogs, inventory, and fulfillment rules.
Develop reliable core systems for inventory management, order routing, and warehouse operations across client accounts.
Create configurable, reusable platform components to enable fast, low-friction onboarding for new 3PL clients.
Provide accurate, real-time inventory and order visibility to internal operations teams and external clients.
Build reliable, observable, self-healing fulfillment pipelines with clear service-level agreements.
Reduce manual intervention in exception handling, including mis-ships, short-ships, returns, and billing disputes, through AI-driven automation.
Set clear architectural direction as the 3PL platform scales from its first clients to broad external adoption.
Make foundational architecture decisions for the new business line and build the platform from the ground up.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with ecommerce order management, inventory, warehouse, or logistics systems.
Exposure to Electronic Data Interchange standards or 3PL/warehouse management system integration patterns.
Experience integrating machine-learning model outputs, such as forecasts, predictions, and anomaly scores, into application logic.
Interest in growing domain expertise in ecommerce logistics and fulfillment.

Salary Range: 0 to 0 (Currency: INR) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Spreetail propels brands to increase their ecommerce market share across the globe while improving their operational costs. Learn how we are building one of the fastest-growing ecommerce companies in history: www.spreetail.com.

Spreetail is becoming a third-party logistics provider, taking on warehousing and fulfillment for external merchants and brands. The 3PL Staff Engineer owns the technical foundation of this new product: the multi-tenant systems that manage client onboarding, inventory, warehouse operations, order fulfillment, and billing for outside customers using Spreetail's fulfillment network.

You will operate as a founding technical leader for a 0-to-1 platform, bringing deep ecommerce domain expertise to bear on warehouse operations, inventory management, and order fulfillment at multi-tenant scale. This platform is being built AI-native from the start — with demand forecasting, automated exception handling, and anomaly detection woven into core workflows rather than bolted on afterward. Your work directly determines whether Spreetail can reliably sell 3PL services to external clients — making it a direct driver of new revenue and margin.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership, build-from-the-ground-up role requiring strong distributed systems expertise, deep familiarity with ecommerce order-to-fulfillment flows, and the ability to make foundational architecture decisions for a new business line.

Why Spreetail

Join a high-performing technology organization that values innovation, ownership, and collaboration. You’ll work with talented engineers who care deeply about building scalable systems and driving real business impact. Together, we’ll make Spreetail better.

How you will achieve success:

A scalable, multi-tenant 3PL platform capable of onboarding external clients with distinct catalogs, inventory, and fulfillment rules

Reliable core systems for inventory management, order routing, and warehouse operations across client accounts

Fast, low-friction onboarding for new 3PL clients through configurable, reusable platform components

Accurate, real-time inventory and order visibility for both internal ops teams and external clients

Reliable, observable, self-healing fulfillment pipelines with clear SLAs clients can be sold against

Reduced manual intervention in exception handling (mis-ships, short-ships, returns, billing disputes) through AI-driven automation

Clear architectural direction as the 3PL platform scales from first clients to broad external adaptation.

What experiences will help you in this role:

6–8+ years of experience building and shipping production backend systems

Experience informally or formally leading the technical direction of a team or workstream (design reviews, mentorship, setting standards)

Experience with ecommerce order management, inventory, warehouse, or logistics systems is a strong plus

Comfortable working in a fast-moving, still-being-defined 0-to-1 environment

Technical Skills

Strong fundamentals in backend engineering: APIs, data modeling, databases, and distributed systems

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and cloud-native service design

Familiarity with event-driven architectures (queues, streams, async processing)

Strong testing, debugging, and production-support practices

Technical Leadership

Ability to set technical direction and make sound judgment calls without direct authority

Strong code review and mentorship instincts

Comfort representing a workstream in broader architecture discussions

Domain & AI Exposure (Nice to Have)

Exposure to EDI standards or 3PL/WMS integration patterns

Experience integrating ML model outputs (forecasts, predictions, anomaly scores) into application logic

Interest in growing domain expertise in e-commerce logistics and fulfillment

Collaboration & Communication

Ability to influence and align engineers without formal authority over them

Clear written and verbal communication, especially in async, distributed team settings

Comfort balancing hands-on technical work with guiding others

This is a remote position and requires candidates to have an available work-from-home setup

Desktop/Laptop system requirements:

- 4th generation or higher, at least Intel i3 or equivalent processor;

- at least 4GB RAM;

- Windows 10 and above or MAC OSX operating system

- You are required to provide your own dual monitors

A strong and stable internet connection (A DSL, cable or fiber wired internet service with 10 Mbps plan or higher for primary connection)

PC Headset

A high-definition (HD) external or integrated webcam with at least 720p resolution.

Please be aware of scammers. Spreetail will only contact you through Lever or the spreetail.com domain. Spreetail will never ask candidates for money during the recruitment process. Please reach out to [email protected] directly if you have any concerns. Emails from @spreetailjobs.com are fraudulent.

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About the Company

Spreetail

Ecommerce accelerator managing marketplaces and fulfillment

Spreetail helps brands grow online sales by acting as a full-service ecommerce accelerator. It partners with manufacturers to expand their reach across 15 marketplaces (like Amazon, Walmart, and Target) and takes ownership of inventory to drive more sales. Its product workflow includes optimizing product listings, managing ads, and delivering insights through proprietary technology. Spreetail runs eight fulfillment centers to offer nationwide next-day delivery that covers 80% of the US population and handles all customer service and returns, creating a premium shopping experience for end customers. The company differentiates itself by owning inventory and providing end-to-end support—from marketplace optimization to logistics and customer service—reducing complexity and risk for brands. Its goal is to scale partners’ online revenue efficiently while expanding their ecommerce footprint.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding: $208M
Headquarters: Lincoln, NE
Founded: 2006

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